These short reflections and insights range in length from twitter-length to short essays. They’re free, so what’ve you got to lose but a few moments?
We really are powerless over everything. A feral kitten in my back yard, full of play. A few months later, grown, wounded, limping. Eventually to die in the cold. And where it goes? It never comes back to tell us. What it was before? The cat never knew the answer to that. It has no […]
We are
The infinite floating in space
Flecks of the eternal knitted in strands of time
We are
Love in time
© 2022 by Michael C. Just
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It’s not many beings each living
their own lives.
It’s one being
living many lives.
It’s not many eyes
seeing the One.
It’s the One
seeing through many eyes.
It’s not many voices
joined in a single chorus.
It’s one voice
sung through many mouths.
When One becomes many
And the many no longer
share a single life,
when they no longer
see themselves as one,
or sing with a common voice,
it […]
You were kings and jesters, explorers and whores, but mostly, you were poor, common, ignorant, faithful and faithless. You believed in the reality of your Maker, and in odds alone. You sought nothing but pleasure in a world without tomorrows and yet looked only to heaven. So many masks you wore. And yet, priest or […]
If the part is a representation of the whole, and each life form is, in a sense, a holon of God, then the orders of magnitude and classifications of life schemes are, in essence, meaningless. One effect of this is that it doesn’t matter whether someone has squashed a jumping spider or committed crimes against […]
I’m a disappointed idealist, and those are the worst kind. The consequence of my faded optimism is disillusionment, coupled with an inevitable bitterness. I hold myself to high standards. I try not to lie or cheat or steal. I try to hold open the door for somebody else, and let the other guy go first […]
I really don’t believe in evil. If anyone or anything is evil, then the rest of us have to decide what that is. To believe in the concept of evil presupposes that we can detect it in our world, and that we can separate good from evil. The concept of evil thus conditions us to […]
The idea of karma as cold, inescapable fate is tempered by the idea of forgiveness. As soon as I can forgive – myself, everyone else, what I see the world as – I’m released and I release myself from the karmic hold of past deeds, thoughts and words. I’m reminded of the words of Francis […]
Walking through the woods one autumn afternoon, through air cleansed by rain. Everything silent. The year old, yet everything new. A parade of squirrels — one black, one gray, one red— played crack-the-whip through the leaf litter, winding up a tree, then back down again like a snake coiling. Down at the river, sun echoed […]
Science has already synthesized with its ostensible opposites, religion and mystic knowing. Rather than rolling back the mystery of creation and allowing miracles to recede as the unexplained becomes scientifically known, perhaps the deity works through science as it once communed with us through revelation and met us in mystery. The mind of Atman is […]